For most people, Saturday morning was filled with them getting out of bed late, because they didn’t have to go to work.  Milling around the house in the morning, getting dressed around noon, and then maybe spending the day either watching college football, going to the store to do some shopping, going out to dinner with some friends or just relaxing the entire day.  Sunday was filled with more of the same, except some folks get up and go to Church once or twice a month.  But really their weekend is spent doing nothing except relaxing from the work week, and perhaps spending a little time with family and friends.

However the people who are successful in real estate or in business, their weekend plays out a little differently.  Saturday morning they sleep in, but it’s only for an hour.  They get up and they spend at least two or three hours building their business.  Reading, checking out houses, spending some time marketing, networking, putting in offers, or something to that effect.  Why?  Because they want to be successful, or they are successful. 

Some may scoff at that.  I hear it often, “Well I’m not just going to use my weekend for more work, and the weekends are for relaxing!

You know what, I scoff at that.  For everyone that says something like that, I wonder where they will be in five or ten years from now.  Actually I don’t wonder.  I already know.  They’ll be the ones who are crying over the fact that they got retired early from one of the Big Three Automakers. Or they will be upset over the fact that their company just went belly up or that they were let go.  Perhaps they will just be one of the ones who sit and wonder “What if.”

“What if I had actually invested some time into starting my real estate investing business?”  “What if I had did one flip, or got one rental.” 

“What if I wasn’t always relaxing every weekend and spent a little time on my business, I wonder where I would be now?”

It’s best not to let yourself worry about “What if’s” by actually getting out there and doing something.  Most of the time the thing that holds people back is really just fear.  Fear of failure, fear of the unknown, fear of stepping outside of your comfort zone.  Once you overcome that fear, you’ll be surprised at how successful you’ll become.

That’s the difference between those that are successful, and those who wonder “what if” or fail.

Tomorrow, more tips on the number one way to invest in real estate…….. ACTION!